AP World History Flashcards
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| 198511062 | paleoanthropologist | people who study the earliest humans and the setting in which they live | 0 | |
| 198511063 | myth | an interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep maoral message | 1 | |
| 198511064 | caste | a hierarchical ordering of people into groups (fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status, and determining whom they may marry and dine with) | 2 | |
| 198511065 | teleology | The philosophical study of final causes or purposes in nature or the universe used to prove the existence of a God | 3 | |
| 198511066 | Homo erectus | the largest group of hominids, and the most similar to humans(evolved 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago) | 4 | |
| 198511067 | paradigm | a model of reality representing one point of view | 5 | |
| 198511068 | radiocarbon dating | a method of dating artifacts by measuring radioactive carbon.(useful for 40,000 - 70,000 years ago) | 6 | |
| 198511069 | thermoluminescence | a method of dating burnt flint by measuring electrons (useful from 50,000 years ago to 300,000 years ago) | 7 | |
| 198511070 | shaman | people who are believed to enter trances, have supernatural powers,with the ability to cure the sick, find whats lost, predict the future, protect community, and they were usually rulers. | 8 |